Monthly Archives: February 2018

On February 14, the NULab for Texts, Maps and Networks, the Women Writers Project, the Digital Scholarship Group and Snell Library’s Open Access programming teamed up for a special Valentine’s Day celebration—a transcribe-a-thon and birthday party for Frederick Douglass. Faculty, staff and students from various disciplines across Northeastern gathered in the Digital Media Commons to Continue Reading »

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A Documentary Project Dedicated to the Organizers and Participants of the Boston Women’s March, January 21, 2017 Art of the March is an online archive and interactive presentation of protest signs and posters collected in the aftermath of the historic Boston Women’s March on January 21, 2017. The Art of the March website contains digital Continue Reading »

The NULab, in partnership with the Women Writers Project, Open Access at Snell, and the Digital Scholarship Group will participate in a massive, international online transcribe-a-thon, Wednesday, February 14th, 2018. The working celebration will mark the 200th birthday of self-emancipated African American activist, Frederick Douglass. This effort has been organized by the Colored Convention Project Continue Reading »

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By John Wihbey, Assistant Professor of Journalism and New Media, Northeastern University Note: John Wihbey’s research is partially supported by a grant from the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. The year 2017 will certainly go down as one of more vertiginous, and let’s just say it, outright crazy moments in modern American media history. It was the Continue Reading »

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